Things got really interesting Tuesday, Oct. 27,, at a court hearing on the controversial transgender mailers and text messages sent across Texas last week. The quest to unmask whoever is behind the multimillion dollar effort to scare parents to vote…
Tracking the extremist shifts in the Republican Party of Texas
I read through this year’s platform of the Republican Party of Texas in horror. It is really, really bad. And then I wondered if it always had been this bad. Have the state party’s legislative priorities changed in any way…
Here’s a clue about the fake trans mailers
What does the manga character Ino have to do with the fake trans mailers in the Texas midterms? My hunch is quite a lot. But first, some background: In case you missed the most recent fake transgender mailer controversy, BNG…
These people would all be alive if it weren’t for ICE
I’ve written before about my involvement with an interfaith clergy coalition in Dallas. Since May 2025, we’ve held constant vigil with people of faith outside the Dallas ICE Field Office. Last week, we held a special vigil. Sept. 24 marked…
Trump is lying — again — about the Kennedy Center
I’ve written multiple times about Donald Trump’s obsession with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and his authoritarian motivations to control the arts and culture institutions in this country. The president’s obsession is now threatening the country’s…
Robert Jeffress, apostate
Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Dallas, is no stranger to controversy. He has denigrated Christian ethics by openly proclaiming political power as more important than personal character when choosing political candidates. Time and again he’s asked…
I was there on 9/11
Every year I’ve been on Facebook — for nearly 20 years — I’ve posted the same message on September 11: Every year on this day, I wake up remembering the clear blue sky. It was a perfect September day in…
Democratic Socialists are not Social Democrats
I read George Orwell’s Animal Farm in the ninth grade. I’ve been thinking a lot about the novella in recent weeks as candidates from the Democratic Socialists of America face more moderate Democrats in primary elections across the country. In…
A clergy call to preserve our democracy
The last time I was in Minneapolis, the city was under siege. In January, I came to Minneapolis on behalf of Baptist News Global. I arrived two weeks after Renée Nicole Good — a U.S. citizen and mother of three…
I’m a mother asking the court to block Texas’ Ten Commandments law
I am a Baptist pastor in Texas, the mother of an elementary-school child and one of the plaintiffs in Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, a lawsuit challenging a Texas law (SB-10) that requires public schools to post the…
Don’t look away: ICE and CBP are getting away with murder
I grew up in a suburb of Dallas. I don’t know how many of my classmates were undocumented — we never thought to ask. It was the late 1980s and early ’90s, after all. A few years later, I was…
My first experience of Ryan Stollar was his cruel suicide note
Note: This article includes an explicit discussion of suicide and mental health issues. In the last 20 years, the words we use to talk about suicide have changed. We are chastised for saying that someone “committed suicide,” because in…